Midlands Architect Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts within the Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Altrincham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	23
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	66	64
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.067 %
As % of the category below	5.004 %	4.028 %
Daily rates quoted	18	13
Average minimum daily rate	£492	£429
Average daily rate	£542	£442
% change on same period last year	+22.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£593	£455
UK excluding London average daily rate	£468	£462
% change on same period last year	+1.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.00	£43.50
Average hourly rate	£39.97	£43.50
% change on same period last year	-8.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.93	£43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£44.22	£45.20
% change on same period last year	-2.18 %
Job Titles Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1319	1589
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.739 %	1.662 %
Daily rates quoted	261	260
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£377
Average daily rate	£387	£396
% change on same period last year	-2.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£415
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	108
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.68	£30.73
Average hourly rate	£23.78	£31.80
% change on same period last year	-25.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.88	£32.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.39	£25.89
% change on same period last year	-9.63 %
Architect England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Architect across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Architect across the Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Architect across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Architect across the Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Architect across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region that cited Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Architect in their job title.

1 25 (23.58 %) SAP 2 23 (21.70 %) .NET 3 22 (20.75 %) Oracle 4 19 (17.92 %) Java 5 18 (16.98 %) UML 6 15 (14.15 %) SQL Server 6 15 (14.15 %) J2EE 6 15 (14.15 %) WebSphere 7 13 (12.26 %) ASP.NET 7 13 (12.26 %) IBM 8 12 (11.32 %) WebServices 8 12 (11.32 %) C# 9 11 (10.38 %) Unix 9 11 (10.38 %) Windows 10 10 (9.434 %) Microsoft

11 9 (8.491 %) SOA 11 9 (8.491 %) RUP 11 9 (8.491 %) Finance 11 9 (8.491 %) Government 12 8 (7.547 %) VB 12 8 (7.547 %) Enterprise Architecture 13 7 (6.604 %) Banking 13 7 (6.604 %) Retail 13 7 (6.604 %) .NET Framework 13 7 (6.604 %) WebLogic 13 7 (6.604 %) EAI 13 7 (6.604 %) Active Directory 13 7 (6.604 %) Manufacturing 13 7 (6.604 %) WinForms 14 6 (5.660 %) Chemicals

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region that cited Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 23 (21.70 %) .NET 2 15 (14.15 %) J2EE 2 15 (14.15 %) WebSphere 3 13 (12.26 %) ASP.NET 4 12 (11.32 %) WebServices 5 7 (6.604 %) .NET Framework 5 7 (6.604 %) WinForms 6 4 (3.774 %) ASP 7 3 (2.830 %) XML 7 3 (2.830 %) JSP 7 3 (2.830 %) Servlets 7 3 (2.830 %) HTML 8 2 (1.887 %) JMS 8 2 (1.887 %) Struts 8 2 (1.887 %) SAP Basis 8 2 (1.887 %) Hibernate 8 2 (1.887 %) Spring 9 1 (0.943 %) AJAX 9 1 (0.943 %) JSF 9 1 (0.943 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 7 (6.604 %) WebLogic 2 5 (4.717 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 5 (4.717 %) SharePoint 3 4 (3.774 %) IIS 3 4 (3.774 %) WebLogic Portal 4 3 (2.830 %) NetWeaver 4 3 (2.830 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 2 (1.887 %) CICS 6 1 (0.943 %) WebSphere Message Broker 6 1 (0.943 %) ESB
Applications 1 2 (1.887 %) MS Visio 2 1 (0.943 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 5 (4.717 %) SAP HR 2 2 (1.887 %) SAP Payroll 3 1 (0.943 %) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking 1 4 (3.774 %) LAN 1 4 (3.774 %) WAN 1 4 (3.774 %) SAN 2 2 (1.887 %) Firewall 2 2 (1.887 %) MPLS 3 1 (0.943 %) BSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (14.15 %) SQL Server 2 5 (4.717 %) DB2 3 3 (2.830 %) Oracle 10g 4 2 (1.887 %) SAP BW 4 2 (1.887 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (1.887 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (0.943 %) SAP BI 5 1 (0.943 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (0.943 %) Data Mining 5 1 (0.943 %) RDBMS 5 1 (0.943 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (0.943 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 2 (1.887 %) JUnit 1 2 (1.887 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (0.943 %) Eclipse 2 1 (0.943 %) Ant	General 1 9 (8.491 %) Finance 1 9 (8.491 %) Government 2 7 (6.604 %) Banking 2 7 (6.604 %) Retail 2 7 (6.604 %) Manufacturing 3 6 (5.660 %) Chemicals 4 3 (2.830 %) Insurance 4 3 (2.830 %) Retail Banking 4 3 (2.830 %) Automotive 5 2 (1.887 %) Aerospace 5 2 (1.887 %) Local Government 6 1 (0.943 %) Telecoms 6 1 (0.943 %) Publishing
Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.830 %) IBM Mainframe 1 3 (2.830 %) Mainframe 1 3 (2.830 %) AS400 2 1 (0.943 %) Clustering 2 1 (0.943 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 11 (10.38 %) Unix 1 11 (10.38 %) Windows 2 3 (2.830 %) Linux 2 3 (2.830 %) AIX 2 3 (2.830 %) HPUX 3 1 (0.943 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (16.98 %) UML 2 9 (8.491 %) SOA 2 9 (8.491 %) RUP 3 8 (7.547 %) Enterprise Architecture 4 7 (6.604 %) EAI 5 6 (5.660 %) Migration 5 6 (5.660 %) BPR 6 5 (4.717 %) Performance Testing 6 5 (4.717 %) Security Cleared 6 5 (4.717 %) Project Management 7 3 (2.830 %) SC Cleared 7 3 (2.830 %) Risk Assessment 7 3 (2.830 %) CRM 7 3 (2.830 %) E-Commerce 8 2 (1.887 %) ERP 8 2 (1.887 %) OO 8 2 (1.887 %) RAD 8 2 (1.887 %) SSADM 8 2 (1.887 %) ITIL 8 2 (1.887 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 19 (17.92 %) Java 2 12 (11.32 %) C# 3 8 (7.547 %) VB 4 5 (4.717 %) VB.NET 5 4 (3.774 %) SQL 6 3 (2.830 %) PL/SQL 6 3 (2.830 %) C++ 7 2 (1.887 %) COBOL 7 2 (1.887 %) PL/1 7 2 (1.887 %) JCL 7 2 (1.887 %) VB6 8 1 (0.943 %) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.830 %) QA	System Software 1 7 (6.604 %) Active Directory 2 4 (3.774 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (1.887 %) Oracle RAC 4 1 (0.943 %) AquaLogic 4 1 (0.943 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (0.943 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management 1 5 (4.717 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (0.943 %) SCCM 2 1 (0.943 %) SCOM 2 1 (0.943 %) Tivoli 2 1 (0.943 %) MOM 2 1 (0.943 %) EMC TimeFinder 2 1 (0.943 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 25 (23.58 %) SAP 2 22 (20.75 %) Oracle 3 13 (12.26 %) IBM 4 10 (9.434 %) Microsoft 5 4 (3.774 %) Sun 5 4 (3.774 %) Citrix 6 3 (2.830 %) HP 7 2 (1.887 %) VMware 7 2 (1.887 %) BEA 8 1 (0.943 %) Remedy 8 1 (0.943 %) EMC 8 1 (0.943 %) Cramer 8 1 (0.943 %) Cisco 8 1 (0.943 %) Adobe 8 1 (0.943 %) Business Objects